I almost made it into iCE when MiRAGE (formerly DREAM? I think.. Shihear Kallizard ran it) merged, but I think I was inactive at the time and I really wasn't an iCE-level artist). But I have no copies of my old art and I have never found any online so time to start digging through these.

Mirage, that sounds familiar. My impression was ACiD and iCE were the two top groups and you had to be pretty good to get in. Everything was tenebristic because of the way the ansi colors mixed (had no idea what tenebrism was) and the subject matter was almost entirely games/comics characters.

Well apparently DREAM (which was a WWIVnet based ANSI group led by Shihear Kallizard) became LTD, or split into LTD and something else.. I was able to find a few of my works for LTD on sixteen colors and they are pretty bad.

What was your handle?

-Z-Trasher

I was not into the warez scene but I had some classmates who were. I did ansis for Dragonworld and Asylum, and maybe Sanctuary. The ansi scene was separate but associated with the warez scene (I think the cracking groups paid to have ansis made) if that makes any sense.

I was the sysop of Zap! which was PD/Shareware files, message networks and door games. A BBS was a rudimentary CMS that was like a social network for your neighborhood. If you knew ansi you could customize the interface, especially if you had the source code. At one point I had the Telegard source code (Pascal) and made a lot of UI modifications to it.

There's at least one on there, but it isn't rendering. :(

I'll work on it tonight or tomorrow!

OK I see what you mean, it's in the pack but not rendering. I don't even remember what that is.